Il Borro - Toscana 2020 (750ml)

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Producer	Il Borro
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Varietal	Proprietary Red
Vintage	2020
Sku	60737
Size	750ml

 

This is a round and rather juicy young wine with blackberry, chocolate and grilled meat notes. Full and layered with very fine tannins that are well integrated and a bright finish. Lively at the end. A blend of 35% cabernet sauvignon, 50% merlot and 15% syrah. 50% aged in 20-hectoliter casks. From organically grown grapes. Needs three or four years to come together.

Intensely savory at first, with topsoil, graphite, leather, then fresh and floral with crushed sage and lavender, before wild cherry and wild strawberry emerge. Black cherry notes are generous and bright on the palate but with deep, brooding earth tones as a contrast. Tannins are refined but with tensile strength, like good armor, and a warm but bracing salinity carries through a long finish.

Though luscious and concentrated, this red is also light on its feet. Flavors of plum, blackberry, boysenberry and fruitcake abound, accented by iron and spice notes, with a hint of wild herbs. Firm tannins line the finish, yet this reveals fine harmony and a lingering aftertaste. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.

The organic Il Borro 2020 Il Borro (in a heavy glass bottle) is a big-boned Bordeaux blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The wine shows a lot of oak that comes off as toasted spice, coconut or buttered almond. There is a distant note of dried dill, probably in the pyrazine family of the Cabernet Sauvignon, but it dissipates within the context of the big, ripe black fruit at the core. From a hot vintage, you get a lot of richness and fruit weight.